[mythtv-users] Tuner Card w/ Svideo Inputs & PCI Sound Transfer

[Ian Neubert]

Joe Votour wrote:
>Well, it doesn't have analog audio left/right, but the
>Hauppauge WinTV card (model 401) supports S-Video in,
>with a 3.5mm headphone jack input (stereo), and works
>with btaudio (so no connection to a sound card is
>necessary).

Thanks Joe. Do you have one of these cards? How's the video and audio
quality?

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>Also, I believe not all of the revisions of the WInTV-PCI 401 cards may
>support btaudio.  I don't know if anyone has been able to reliably identify
>cards that will support btaudio; certainly not without examining the chips
on
>the card, and even that is not always a guarantee.

Thanks for the tip. I'm leaning toward using a bunch of the newer PVR-250's
as they don't need a sound card and they have an integrated encoder.

>4 analog tuners?  I hope the OP has an awful lot of spare CPU cycles...

Assuming I get the PVR-250's with onboard MPEG-2 encoders, do you think an
Athlon 2400+ could handle all 4 + a pcHDTV recording at once? In this setup
the CPU shouldn't be doing anything with the video for any of the cards,
just spewing everything to the hard disks. Is that correct?

Thanks for all your help everyone.

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Joe Votour
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 5:28 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Tuner Card w/ Svideo Inputs & PCI Sound
Transfer


Well, it doesn't have analog audio left/right, but the
Hauppauge WinTV card (model 401) supports S-Video in,
with a 3.5mm headphone jack input (stereo), and works
with btaudio (so no connection to a sound card is
necessary).

The driver is fairly stable, and I don't see why 4 of
them wouldn't work together.  The trick though is
making sure that the cards you get have the BT878 chip
on them, as I think some of the newer ones have newer
Conexant chips that aren't fully supported.

-- Joe

--- Ian Neubert <ian at ianneubert.com> wrote:
> I'm working on setting up a large MythTV backend
> with 4 analog tuners and 1
> HDTV tuner. To save on PCI slots & PCs I want to
> load them all up in one
> box.
>
> So the big questions: Are there any input cards that
> have inputs for (at
> least) S-video & analog audio left & right (ideally
> audio would input from
> an optical S/PDIF) and will send the stereo audio
> through the PCI interface
> to be recorded? And will this card work with 4 of
> them in one PC?
>
> I'm trying to avoid needing a seperate soundcard for
> each tuner, and
> consolidate everything on a single server. Any
> thoughts?
>
> Thanks!!
>
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